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- 2014
- TV-MA
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 16 m
- 2014
- TV-MA
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 16 m
Summary Pug, a young boy growing up on a combative West Baltimore block, finds solace in a group of illegal dirt bike riders known as the 12 O'Clock Boys.
Directed By: Lotfy Nathan
Written By: John Kassab, Lotfy Nathan
- 2014
- TV-MA
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 16 m
- 2014
- TV-MA
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 16 m
12 O'Clock Boys
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4.6
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Summary Pug, a young boy growing up on a combative West Baltimore block, finds solace in a group of illegal dirt bike riders known as the 12 O'Clock Boys.
Directed By: Lotfy Nathan
Written By: John Kassab, Lotfy Nathan
Where to Watch
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
35% Mixed
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5% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
68
60% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Nathan never condescends to Pug or his cohorts, instead smartly allowing their brazen maneuvers to run the show.
What lingers in Nathan's documentary isn't the swaggering trails of diesel fumes. It's the sadness of watching Pug narrow his options.
It’s to Nathan’s credit that he doesn’t negate the allure of dirt-bike riding as an escape hatch from inner-city woes.
12 O’Clock Boys packs more life into its 72 minutes than many longer documentaries do.
The young filmmaker rarely digs beneath the harsh environment's many fraught surfaces. He simply lets his cameras be his guide.
There’s bleakness in the beauty: What begins as a personal coming-of-age story ends as a tragic tale of a community’s stunted adolescence.
A thin, problematic and amateurishly-made documentary, 12 O'Clock Boys plays like two films awkwardly grafted together.
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4.6
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Production Company
Mission Films
Release Date Jan 31, 2014
Duration 1 h 16 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Milwaukee Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
